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The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera…
The British Library has announced it has acquired the archive of novelist, short story writer, and…
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Christie’s is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio with a landmark non-selling exhibition, Shakespeare’s First Folio: The First Four Hundred Years, uniquely bringing together six copies, the largest single display of First Folios assembled in the…
This year's Lyell Lectures series at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford will focus on the role of amanuenses in scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts.
Sotheby’s is to stage a one-off Coronation Sale which brings together a range of royal letters, fine manuscripts, jewellery, artwork, and objects that reflect upon Britain’s royal past from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
The full contents of the auction, include:
Oxford University Press (OUP) has been commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury to produce the Coronation Bible to be used by His Majesty King Charles III at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023. The Coronation Bible will play a significant role in the ceremony, with the King set to place his hand…
Earlier this year, The Raab Collection offered for sale a newly discovered, unpublished George Washington letter. Found in a small private collection in rural West Virginia, the 1787 letter was addressed to Israel Shreve (1739-1799), a retired colonel who had served with him at Valley Forge.
Sixty years ago this month, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a Birmingham, Alabama jail cell, without a light or even a mattress on the bedsprings, and penned his Letter from Birmingham Jail, the most important written statement of the civil rights movement.
Posters and handbills from the David Swartz Concert Poster Collection featuring the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and Ray Charles go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' May 11 Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters Auction.
Childhood drawings by the Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret dating from 1938 will be put up for auction at Cheffins as part of The Library Sale on April 27.
Freeman’s May 3 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by an exceedingly rare first edition of the King James Bible, printed in London in 1611 and one of only 114 known extant copies. Also under the hammer are illustrated books from the Collection of Nicholas Wedge, 17th and 18th century maps, a…
Lambeth Palace Library is celebrating the forthcoming coronation of King Charles III through an exhibition showcasing coronation documents and religious items that have been used in Royal Coronation ceremonies going back to the Middle Ages and up to Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953.
